Critics say AI safety is incentivized to hype extinction risk to seize power
nptacek · x · 2026-09-12
somewheresy argues that the AI safety community is incentivized to play up mass extinction scenarios so it can embed itself, without democratic election, between the state and its citizens, effectively putting much of international relations under its control. nptacek amplified the critique.
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